The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-11-14

phemers, and whether there shall be those
bearing your image and carrying your
name fostering in the low hauntS of vice,
and foundering in dissipation, and making
the midnight of their lives horrid with
long howl of ruin. or whether from your
family altars shall come the Christians, the
roformers, the teachers, the ministers of
Christ, the comforters of the troubled, the
healerS of the sick, the enacters of good
laws, the founders of charitable institutions,
and a great many who shall i'll the humber
spheres of toll and usefulness serve God and
the best interests of the human race.
You cannot as parents shirk the response
bility. God has charged you with mission,
and all the thrones of heaven are waiting
to see whether you will do your duty. We
must not forget that it is not SO much what
we teach our children as what we are in
their presence. We wish them to be better
than we are but the probability is that
they will only be- reproductions of our own
character German literature has much to
say of the spectre of Brocken.n Among
those mountains travellers in certain condi-
tions of the atmosphere SEQ them
selves copied on gigantic scale
in the clouds. At first the
travellers do not realize that it is
themselves on larger scale. When they
lift a hand or move the head this monster
spectre does the same, and with such en-
most exciting, and thousands have gone to
that place Just to behold the spectre of
Brocken. The probability is that some of
our faults which we consider small and in
significant, if we do not put an end TO
them, will be copied on larger scale in the
lives of our children, and perhaps dilated
and exaggerated into spectral proportions.
You need not go as far as the Broken to
see that process. The first thing in inn
portance in the education of our children is
to make ourselves, by the grace Of God,
fit examples to be copied. The day
will come when you must confront
that child, not in the church pew on a calm
Sabbath, but amid the CONSERVATION of the
rising dead, and the flying heavens, and
burning world. From your side that son or
daughter, bone of your bone, heart of your
heart, the fathers brow his brow, the
mothers eye his eye, shall 60 forth to an
eternal destiny What will be your joy if
at last you hear their feet in the same golden
highway, and hear their voices in the same
rapturous song, illustrations, while the
eternal ages last, of what faithful parent
could, under God, accomplish. / was read
ing OF a mother who dying had all her
children about her, and took each one Of
them by the hand, and asked them to meet
her in heaven, and with tears and sobs such
as those only know who have stood by the
deathbed of good old mother. They all
promised. But there was q young man
of nineteen who had been very wild and
reckless, and hard, and proud, and when
she took his hand she said: ''Now, my boy,
| want you to promise me before die, that
you will become a Christian and meet me in
heaven The young man made no answer,
for there was so much for him to give up, if
he made and kept such promise But
the aged mother persisted i'll saying:
''You won't deny me that before l go, will
you' This parting must not be forever.
Tell me how you will serve God and meet
me in the land where there is no parting"
QuaIxing with emotion he stood, making up
his mind and halting and hesitating, but at
last his stubbornness yielded and he threw
his arms around his mothers neck and said:
''Yes, mother; | will | will" And as he
finished the last word of his promise, her
spirit ascended. | thank God the young
man kept his promise. Yes, he kept it. May
God give all mothers and fathers the glad
ness of their childrens salvation.
For all who are trying to do their duty as
parents | quote the tremendous passage:
''Train up a child in the way in which he
should go, and when he is old he will not
depart from itn If through good discipline
and prayer and godly example you are act
ing upon that child you have the right to
expect him to grow up virtuous. And how
many tears of Joy you will shed when you
See your Clllu uoipl dhN JuoO ailO VI ubL-
full and Christian and successful--a holy
man amid a world Of dishonesty, godly
woman in a world of frivolous pretension.
When you come to die they will gather to
bless your last hours They will push back
the white locks on your cold forehead and
say: "What good father he always was
to men They will fold your hands peace
fully and say: "Dear mother! She is gone.
Her troubles are all over. Don't she look
beautiful"